"Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come."

-- Bruce Catton

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“If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.”
“You need a bit more to be a pop star than just a good voice.”
“Robert Zubrin’s masterful study…makes for riveting reading. . a cautionary tale of what happens when powerful, unprincipled elites are not only alienated from the mass of their fellow men, but come to see them as a barrier to imagined social, evolutionary, or environmental progress.”
“Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.”
“When you're a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused of being a parody, but if you act masculine, it is seen as a sign of your true male identity. And if you act sweet and demure, you're accused of reinforcing patriarchal ideals of female passivity, but if you stand up for your own rights and make your voice heard, then you are dismissed as wielding male privilege and entitlement.”

Source : Julia Serano (2013). “Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive”, p.20, Seal Press
“Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.”
“A fairytale is when you marry a frog and it turns out to be a princess. Reality is vice versa.”
“Do not desire your neighbor's wife in vain.”

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